Low viscosity contrast fingering in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 908-924

  Alvarez Lacalle, E ^a   Ortin J ^a   Casademunt, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CENTRIFUGATION; DATA REDUCTION; DROP BREAKUP; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STRESSES;

HELE-SHAW CELL; LINEAR DISPERSION;

VISCOSITY;

FINGERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INSTABILITY; INTERFACIAL TENSION; ROTATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 1842684843     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1644149     Document Type: Article

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